James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K. Agent, whose lover he killed. James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world.
Agent is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. James Bond's mission is to find out who has been smuggling diamonds, which are not re-appearing.
He adopts another identity in the form of Peter Franks. He joins up with Tiffany Case, and acts as if he is smuggling the diamonds, but everyone is hungry for these diamonds.
He also has to avoid Mr. Kidd, the dangerous couple who do not leave anyone in their way. Ernst Stavro Blofeld isn't out of the question. He may have changed his looks, but is he linked with the heist? And if he is, can Bond finally defeat his ultimate enemy.
My favourite Bond film: Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever is often described as a Roger Moore film starring Sean Connery, but it goes even farther than that. The film also contains the most amount of nudity, and arguably the rudest jokes of the franchise. The title quote is Connery's quip to a girl with ever-changing wigs, while later we get the immortal "I'm afraid you've caught me with more than my hands up. From the theme title and what a great song!
Their unnerving air is not the result of their gay, slightly homophobic, portrayal, but in Putter Smith's performance as Kidd. Not a trained actor, but an accomplished jazz bassist, this off-kilter playing creates an unconscious, unsettling atmosphere. It's this juxtaposition which compels throughout. Like seeing Britain's top espionage agent doing the childhood "snogging with yourself" routine then smashing a man's head through a window just seconds later. It's a superficially lightweight film, but with a nasty, almost bitter undercurrent. Connery's obvious resistance to the role actually serves it well here, given that this is the first post-wife Bond movie.
Bernard Lee plays an unusually terse M to complement this abrasive Such a starch display cuts through the smug underpinnings of the character and makes the cheesy one-liners more palatable. In line with this most misogynistic of Bond pictures, Jill St. John's character development passes from intelligent, through to devious and down into simpering bimbo. Incidental music is a bit disattached, and often feels like it belongs to another film. It works against, rather than with, the picture it's there to support. Yet although not quite the best of the series, this and the following Live and Let Die are the most distinctive in look, feel and style.
They're light, pacy, poppish takes on the format, full of comicbook verve and wit. Guy Hamilton's direction is also very good; making the most of the LA location with use of expansive aerial shots. The plot seems fairly complex, though maybe that's because it's underdeveloped and submerged beneath slightly irrelevant setpieces. I had to smile at the line "Get him off that machine, that isn't a toy" as Sean boards the moonbuggy. I remember after the film it became one, a primary-coloured Dinky version with a spinning radar.
Brings back memories, that. Blofeld, who has now taken up cloning and cross-dressing, is played here by Charles Gray. Although at the time it was four years before he would become the criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the two are now inseparable, in my mind at least. As if this wasn't enough high camp to go round, there's also Connery being demolished by Bambi and Thumper, a couple of sadistic female gymnasts. If something about this quirky, offbeat Bond and some sources list it as the seventh least successful in terms of gross doesn't quite gel, then it greatly improves on repeat viewings.
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Full Cast and Crew. She drives Bond to the airport, where the diamonds are given to Whyte's casino manager, Bert Saxby, who is followed to a remote facility. Bond enters the apparent destination of the diamonds: Bond fakes Metz by telling him he is Klaus Hergersheimer, a technician he met in the facility. His cover is blown when the real Hergersheimer shows up. Bond attempts to remain hidden, but is seen by security. He manages to evade the guards by stealing a moon buggy and reunites with Tiffany. The laboratory report Bond's activity to the sheriff's office.
Bond and Tiffany make their way back to Las Vegas; they are seen there by the Las Vegas police , who engage in a car chase, but Bond manages to evade all the cars. Bond later scales the walls to the Whyte House's top floor to confront Whyte. He is instead met by two identical Blofelds, who use an electronic device to sound like Whyte.
Bond kills one of the Blofelds, which turns out to be a look-alike. The real Blofeld pulls a gun on Bond, and instructs him into a elevator, where he is knocked out by gas. He is picked up by Wint and Kidd, and taken out to Las Vegas Valley , where he is placed in a pipeline and left to die. The pipeline is buried the next morning. Bond escapes and calls Blofeld, using a similar electronic device made by Q to pose as Saxby. He finds out Whyte is kept at his summer house outside the city and goes there with Felix and the CIA.
After a brief battle with Whyte's female bodyguards Bambi and Thumper, they rescue Whyte. Saxby attempts to kill Bond outside the summer house, but is fatally shot during the ensuing gunfight. In the meantime, Blofeld abducts Case. With the help of Whyte, Bond raids the lab and uncovers Blofeld's plot to create a laser satellite using the diamonds, which by now has already been sent into orbit. With the satellite, Blofeld destroys nuclear weapons in China, the Soviet Union and the United States, then proposes an international auction for global nuclear supremacy.
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Whyte identifies an oil platform off the coast of Baja California as Blofeld's likely base of operations. After Bond's attempt to change the cassette containing the satellite control codes fails due to a mistake by Tiffany, a helicopter attack on the oil rig is launched by Leiter and the CIA.
Blofeld tries to escape in a midget submarine , but Bond gains control of the submarine's launch crane and crashes the sub into the control room, causing both the satellite control and the base to be destroyed. Bond and Tiffany then head for Britain on a cruise ship , where Wint and Kidd pose as room-service stewards and attempt to kill them with a hidden bomb. Bond turns the tables on them, causing Kidd to hurl himself overboard after being set aflame and Wint to detonate with the bomb after being thrown overboard.
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Tiffany then asks James Bond a sensitive question: The obvious cause of the question is the diamonds in the satellite, which can be seen by Bond and Tiffany as a speck in the night sky. The producers originally intended to have Diamonds Are Forever re-create commercially successful aspects of Goldfinger , including hiring its director, Guy Hamilton.
Hunt , who had directed On Her Majesty's Secret Service and worked in all previous Bond films as editor, was invited before Hamilton, but due to involvement with another project could only work on the film if the production date was postponed, which the producers declined to do. When George Lazenby departed from the role prior to the film's release, a complete rewrite was requested, in addition to Maibaum's script failing to impress Albert R.
Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. The plot was later changed after Broccoli had a dream, where his close friend Howard Hughes was replaced by an imposter. So the character of Willard Whyte was created, and Tom Mankiewicz was chosen to rework the script. Mankiewicz later estimated the novel provided around 45 minutes of the film's final running time. The adaptation eliminated the main villains from the source Ian Fleming novel, mobsters called Jack and Seraffimo Spang , but used the henchmen Shady Tree, Mr.
Maibaum's original idea for the ending was a giant boat chase across Lake Mead , with Blofeld being pursued by Bond and all the Las Vegas casino owners, who would be sailing in their private yachts.
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Bond was to rouse the allies into action with a spoof of Lord Nelson's famous cry , "Las Vegas expects every man to do his duty. Maibaum may have thought the eventual oil-rig finale a poor substitute, but it was originally intended to be much more spectacular. Armed frogmen would jump from the helicopters into the sea and attach limpet mines to the rig's legs this explains why frogmen appear on the movie's poster.
Blofeld would have escaped in his BathoSub and Bond would have pursued him, hanging from a weather balloon. Permission was not granted by the owners of the salt mine. It also made the sequence too long. Further problems followed when the explosives set up for the finale were set off too early; fortunately, a handful of cameras were ready and able to capture the footage. George Lazenby was originally offered a contract for seven Bond films, but declined and left after just one, On Her Majesty's Secret Service , on the advice of his agent. To entice the actor to play Bond once more, United Artists offered to back two films of his choice.
Since John Gavin was no longer in the running for the role, his contract was paid in full by United Artists. This project was abandoned because Roman Polanski 's version of Macbeth was already in production.
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Kidd, after a Thelonious Monk Band show. Musician Paul Williams was originally cast as Mr. When he couldn't agree with the producers on compensation, Bruce Glover replaced him. Glover said he was surprised at being chosen, because at first producers said he was too normal and that they wanted a deformed, Peter Lorre -like actor. Bruce Cabot , who played the part of Bert Saxby, died the following year; Diamonds turned out to be his final film role.
Jimmy Dean was cast as Willard Whyte after Saltzman saw a presentation of him. Dean was very worried about playing a Howard Hughes pastiche , because he was an employee of Hughes at the Desert Inn.
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John had originally been offered the part of Plenty O'Toole, but landed the female lead after Sidney Korshak , who assisted the producers in filming in Las Vegas locations, recommended his client St. John, [16] who became the first American Bond girl. Some time later, Broccoli told Thorson she was never cast in a Bond film because she didn't have long hair [18]. A cameo appearance by Sammy Davis, Jr. Initially, the character of Miss Moneypenny did not feature in the movie, partly because Lois Maxwell had held out for a pay increase, but it was decided during production to add the scene where disguised as a customs officer, Moneypenny gives Bond his travel documents at the port of Dover.
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The additional scene was a rather last minute rewrite designed to include the character as the producers felt it important to incorporate the regular character and actress Lois Maxwell after her issue was resolved. Maxwell and Connery filmed their lines separately and were not present together for the short scene [20] [21].
Filming began on 5 April , with the South African scenes actually shot in the desert near Las Vegas, and finished on 13 August The climactic oil rig sequence was shot off the shore of Oceanside, California. We shot every night, I caught all the shows and played golf all day. On the weekend I collapsed — boy, did I collapse. Like a skull with legs. The interiors were a set constructed at Pinewood Studios, where Ken Adam imitated the real building's lozenge -shaped stained glass window in its nave. During location filming, Adam visited several funeral homes in the Las Vegas area, the inspiration behind the gaudy design of the Slumber mortuary the use of tasteless Art Nouveau furniture and Tiffany lamps came from these experiences.
Since the car chase in Las Vegas would have many car crashes, the filmmakers had an arrangement with Ford to use their vehicles.
Built by custom car fabricator Dean Jeffries on a rear-engined Corvair chassis, it was capable of road speeds. The fibreglass tires had to be replaced during the chase sequence because the heat and irregular desert soil ruined them. Hamilton had the idea of making a fight scene inside a lift, which was choreographed and done by Sean Connery and stuntman Joe Robinson.
The alleyway car roll sequence is actually filmed in two locations. It eventually inspired a continuity mistake, as the car enters the alley on the right side tires and exits the street driving on the left side. Bill Hickman Bullitt fame did this stunt; the hired stunt driver they had couldn't perform this and wrecked two or three cars. The stunt team had only one automobile left so they called Hickman — who drove for hours to the location, jumped into the Mustang, and did the stunt in one take.
Film crew members held a rope across the pool for her, with which she could lift her face out of the water to breathe between takes. The pool's sloping bottom made the block slip into deeper water with each take. Eventually, Wood was submerged but was noticed by on-lookers and rescued before actually drowning.
Wood, being a certified diver, took some water but remained calm during the ordeal, although she later admitted to a few "very uncomfortable moments and quite some struggling until they pulled me out.